The following three images appear to be taken the same day at Lula Lake on Lookout Mountain, GA. The images from glass plate negatives show the falls from above and a nearby picnic scene. It’s dated about 1899. The negatives are consistent with a larger collection discovered by David Moon in 2015, but this project … Read more
There are at least thirty glass plate negatives to go through, and there could be more. Here’s the first one scanned. Zoom in on the image using your mouse scroller or the tools below the image. This one is easily identified as the front lawn of the Lookout Mountain Inn, which once sat just above … Read more
It was 2015 when I was first introduced to the format of glass plate negatives. It started with one listed on eBay and eventually would lead to about five hundred moments of everyday life captured in the Chattanooga area from 1897 to about 1907. It was quite the triumph to stumble upon the images, especially … Read more